Hi, I’m Oliver Smith, by day I’m Software Lead at a printing company, but in the dead of night I like tinkering with more interesting software and hardware and building neat little things that no people have ever tried before. I’m happy to work the frontend or backend of web applications, I like PHP, Javascript and HTML but I’m not so keen on design (I like seeing it but not doing it!)…I like making things happen.
As well as enjoying coding I’m just as much at home inside a computer, reconfiguring a router or being handy with a soldering iron.
I’m a dedicated Linux user having been using Linux 100% at home and work for well over a year now and on and off for over five. After trying to develop PHP applications on windows for a short period I decided Linux was the only way to go (though think Windows and OS X have a place for some use cases).
Outside of computing I try to fit in some photography, cycling and walking whenever possible.
Things I’m interested in exploring in the near future include:
- More things with the HTML5 Device API
- Finding a project to explore some more standard PHP (rather than Codeigniter and its bad attempt at OOP).
- A real project with Node.js, probably using MQTT too,
- Power Measurement with live online graphing.
- NoSQL (especially MongoDB and redis)
- Flex on linux (flash has its place)
I am currently in full time employment getting paid to try cool things…sadly this means most cool PHP things I do I don’t share – they usually involve lots of codeigniter and imagemagick.